Secret Room: Book 1 - Chapter 8

Playing Fish Trapped in Secret Room

Book 1: The Storm is Coming

Chapter 8

It……

It was too easy.

It was so easy that it felt like Grunt was deliberately going easy on them.

Everyone looked at each other.  It was hard to believe that Grunt, who was famous for his meanness, would let them off so easily.

Ai Qing did not have any reason to refuse such an easy request from the opponent.

She quickly returned to her room and started to produce the commentary video immediately while the memory was still fresh.

She downloaded the video, edited, and added the introduction subtitles; she was very experienced with the whole process.  Soon the first edition was finished.  She put on the earphones and began the verbal narrative, “…...as everyone can see, here is a very fierce mid player.  He has strong map awareness, deadly ganks, buy items quickly and has an unpredictable playstyle.  In the late game, his enemies had died so many times that they had  been thrown into disarray……”

Suddenly, the video had a short period without any narration.

She looked at the screen.  She was thinking about the tactics of this tough opponent.

How was she going to explain why Dt did not attack her at all for the whole night?  Though he was the player with the highest DPS(Damage Per Second) and melee attack damage, he never killed her even when he was so strong at the end.  It was simply inconceivable.

……She could only assume that maybe he hesitated to kill her because they knew each other.

After the video was uploaded to Weibo, her two roommates happened to come back from shopping.

They were not in the resort village for the whole night, so they did not know that this grievance round was already all over the internet.  After they put down the shopping bags and saw the video uploaded by Ai Qing, they just realized what a big event they had missed.

They two ran over very quickly to watch the video replay.

“Grunt!  Really.  Why is he playing DotA2 suddenly?”

“Hey, hey, you only pay attention to K&K players.  Didn’t you see that their opponents is our team?  Didn’t you see that even our team manager played also?  You are really something, you only have eyes for handsome guys.”

“Ah. Really.  Xiao Xiao, 701, they all were there.”  The young girl was aware of it after the hindsight.  She bowed to Ai Qing,  “Manager, please excuse me.  The whole world knew that I joined this circle for the sake of Grunt.”

Ai Qing took off the wireless earphones and hung it on her neck.  She smiled, “The charm of a  handsome guy is totally understandable.”

“But, manager.”  Another young girl, who was more clear headed, was still watching the video.  She pointed to a character who obviously was not very good at it.  “Who was this?  Looks like he doesn’t know how to play?”

“Uhm……This was one of our rookies.”  Ai Qing commented very fairly,  “This is our boss.”

“Boss? !”

Both girls were shocked,  “Don’t fool me!  The manager!  Tell me this is not true!  Did solo play so poorly?  He is my idol……He’s already ranked number 3 in the world when I was still wearing diapers……”

“……It was another boss.”

“Ah? ! Baona! !”

The two girls were so shocked, they ran out the door screaming. They were shouting around in the hallway to gather all the women teammates together. In no time, more than ten heads were crowded in front of Ai Qing’s computer intently watching the replay.

After the game picked up pace, they were all mesmerized by Dt’s alternate id, without an  exception.

“Damn, he even had the confidence to get a Divine Rapier!”

‘Divine Rapier?”

“Don’t you know ?  Haven’t you heard it even if you never played DotA?  It was absolutely the dream weapon with only one disadvantage.  Once you are killed, then you will drop it.  If the opponent takes it, then that weapon will probably turn the game against you.”

“It was very rare that anybody would use it in official competitions because the risk was too high.  It is ok to use for fun……This guy’s psyche is too strong.  He dared to build a Divine Rapier when play against us, SP.”

He wasn’t just strong willed, he was simply too confident to act like a normal person.

Ai Qing added silently in her mind.

He ignored all opponents.  He manipulated the entire map like a stage for his personal use, his own killing show.

It was just like at the Singapore Tournament that year; his gank tactics controlled the entire map and crushed the other country’s team one after another.

She strolled to the balcony from her room.  With the enthusiastic discussions behind her, she began to recollect the game she had just played.

In July, the income ranking of all esports players for 2014 was just released.

In the list this year, 1/3 of top 20 highest-paid players were from China.   Although this profession still had a long way to go; and although video game competitions were still treated as an addiction that could destroy a person’s life; and although……there were still many people who could not tell the difference between an esports competition and a normal browser game.  But apparently, this profession already had been brought onto the public stage.

Many of her predecessors had already paved this path.  This path would only get wider and wider in the future.

Dt reappeared after disappearing for four years. So, were you here just to play for fun, or did you plan to enter this circle completely?

She put her hands on the fence of the balcony and exhaled facing the night sky, thin white smoke came out of her mouth.

Then she saw the man who stood right downstairs.

He was by himself.

He was very tall and still wore a baseball cap. The cap casted a shadow on his entire face. His silhouette seemed to be outlined by one stroke, without any extra lines.